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...massacre of a million and a half of their people in 1915 by the Turks. In 1988 an earthquake killed 25,000 and left tens of thousands homeless. At about the same time, Armenia became embroiled in an undeclared war with neighboring Muslim Azerbaijan over the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. The fighting has claimed 2,500 lives so far, and no settlement is in sight. On both sides the dispute has fired the same kind of atavistic enmity that is tearing apart other former Soviet republics and the Balkans...
Battling for Nagorno-Karabakh...
...instability on a horrendous scale. Secessions often have touched off savage neighbor-vs.- neighbor wars, like those in Moldova; in Georgia, where South Ossetians have been fighting to break away and join ethnic brethren across the border in Russia; and of course in Yugoslavia and in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, caught in a violent tug-of-war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Even peaceful secessions could spawn a slew of mininations, unable to support themselves economically and dependent on aid from richer nations for survival. At a recent international conference French President Francois Mitterrand worried out loud "whether...
ARMENIANS AND AZERIS HAVE BEEN KILLING EACH other in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh at a rate of 500 a year since 1988. But until recently, the rest of the world saw the bloodbath in landlocked Karabakh as an internal conflict that had few if any ramifications beyond Soviet borders...
Carnage in Nagorno-Karabakh...